1 Dec
2002
1 Dec
'02
3:31 p.m.
At 12:38 PM 12/1/02 -0500, Pat wrote:
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Chad Fernandez wrote:
No, just a single ISA or PCI backplane (or both) that had a single
processor card and several slots for I/O cards. I'm not sure if JDR still
carries the, I haven't seen their catalog in at least 5 years.
Yes, you could mount more than one system in those cases. I had about 30 Advantech
rackmount systems that had 15(?) slot backplanes and the backplanes were divided into two
sections. You could run a separate CPU and I/O cards in each section. The power supply was
common as I recall. Several of these system had HP-IB cards and each computer was linked
to the other one in the same case by HP-IB!
Joe
Hmm, my Zenith XT wasn't as wide as an IBM XT
but was taller. I
wouldn't compare it to an AT, although the later 386 Zeniths I saw had a
csse comparable in size to IBM AT. It was the later 386's that were
supposed to be able to fall off of a moving truck, as I was told.
My Zenith XT has 3 drive bays, one on top of the other. I can't tell if
Sarks computer does or not.
Never mind, you're right. I've only seen one with a 'narrow but tall'
case before, and it was laying in pieces at the time.
Of course, there are also newer machines with passive backplanes, I think
JDR microdevices has sold 'the parts' for ISA and PCI (PIC/MG?) passive
backplane machines.
Do you mean those rack mount multiple computers in one case type things?